FEATURED ARTICLES ABOUT SHOOTING DEATH - PAGE 5

The Montgomery County attorney awaiting trial in Bucks County for the shooting death of a Quakertown hunter is due in Berks County Court later this month for a hearing related to a 2009 shoplifting case, court records show. David Manilla must now face a Berks judge who revoked his participation in a probation program he entered into in June 2010, eight months after he was charged by state police at Hamburg with a misdemeanor retail theft charge. Judge John Boccabella last month approved a request by the Berks County District's Attorney's Office that Manilla be removed from the Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition Program, according to court records.

The owners of the former Roosevelt's Fantasy Bar in Bethlehem deny any responsibility for the shooting death of a 20-year-old Allentown man outside the bar in 1996. Instead, Roosevelt F. and Ana C. Rebimbas say Thomas Ramirez may have contributed to his own death by misrepresenting his age when he entered the bar, consuming illicit drugs before arrived there and failing to avoid an altercation with the man who shot him, Mario Maldonado. The Rebimbases made the claims in response to a Northampton County lawsuit filed against them and the bar in July by Lisa Ramirez, executor of her brother's estate, who claimed they failed to have proper security and served Maldonado even though he was visibly intoxicated.

Evan Guzman will spend 10 to 20 years in prison for his role in a 1995 shooting death outside the former Acorn Hotel in Allentown, a Lehigh County judge ruled Friday. Guzman, 28, who lived in New York, pleaded guilty last month to conspiracy to commit third-degree murder in the death of 26-year-old Albert Padilla of Brooklyn, N.Y. A co-defendant, Luis Dotel, 26, pleaded guilty in 2002 to third-degree murder. According to authorities, Guzman had been assaulted in early December 1995 as part of an escalating turf war among Allentown drug dealers.

Former Montgomery County attorney David Manilla's 10- to 25-year state prison sentence for the shooting death of a Bucks County hunter has been upheld in state Superior Court. A panel of judges on Thursday affirmed Bucks County Judge Albert J. Cepparulo's sentence. Manilla pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the death of Barry Groh, a 52-year-old Quakertown man who was shot while hunting near Manilla's property in November 2010. The sentence was 21/2 years below the maximum that Cepparulo could have imposed.

Easton Mayor Sal Panto Jr. should stop talking about a lawsuit over an officer's shooting death in police headquarters, according to a filing Monday by attorney John P. Karoly Jr., who says the mayor has made "false, defamatory, scurrilous and impermissible statements." On the same day, Panto said the city is considering appealing the judge's latest ruling in the case to put the Nov. 9 trial on hold and might encourage Karoly to resolve the case "before he goes to jail," according to the mayor.

A Northampton County jury of seven men and five women was picked early Monday afternoon to decide whether Clinton Harris shot and killed the fiancé of his ex-girlfriend last year in downtown Easton. Harris, 24, is on trial for homicide in the March 13, 2010, shooting death of Joe Rountree of Wilson. Police say Rountree, 22, had been shot several times in the back. His fiancée, Ericca Pagan, said she watched the shooting and rushed to him as he lay crumbled in blood on the sidewalk.

An Allentown man who police say was involved in the shooting of a city woman Sunday was free on bail on charges related to a fatal shooting last year. Donnie Mack, 19, had been cooperating with authorities and was supposed to be a witness in the homicide trial of Anyis McNeil, charged in the March 3, 2000, shooting death of Kareem Gibson, said District Attorney James B. Martin. Mack and several other defendants initially were charged with homicide in Gibson's death. All except McNeil pleaded down to assault and conspiracy charges.

Robert "Mudman" Simon was arrested and charged in the shooting death of a New Jersey policeman on May 6, not April 29 as stated in an editorial yesterday. The following fields overflowed: STYPE = EDITORIAL CORRECTIONS